Metal Roof

Tommy and Bryce braved the heat recently to put on our galvalume metal roof. We only get to do this a few times a year,…

Exterior Doors…

Tom has been busy this last day or so both manhandling and finessing our extra deep exterior doors into place. While we went with the…

Serious Windows

We have received our triple pane windows from Serious and have been busy working our way around the house. Today was spent installing the ten…

Double Stud walls

Now that we are under roof, we’ve been concentrating on our interior framing.  First up was building the interior half of the double stud wall…

Attic air sealing detail

We are trying a new attic insulation and air sealing detail on this house. We have been a big believer in conditioning the attic space…

Serious Windows

So, again, for this next house, we are going for Passive House Certification, which is still fairly new to the States, but has been around…

Framing Begins!

Enough with the rain already.  We finally caught a break from mother nature today and were able to get rolling.  We knocked out the basement…

Beyond What is Easy

What’s easy is caulking every seam in your home and wrapping the exterior in foam to make it airtight. What’s easy is investing in high…